1953 FA Cup Final Blackpool v Bolton W The Matthews Final www.itsagoal.net

[albion2742]

BTW Bolton played a long time with a crippled player Bell they had to stick him out on the wing.Remember no subs in those days.Notice how hard they had to kick that heavy ball.Not like todays pussies who can just twist their ankle and the ball rolls 30 yards.

[albion2742]

About the keeper,I played with a wet leather ball in my early football days.I,m 70 now.Believe me it was bloody heavy, as for the keeper back then I saw this game as a kid.The Blackpool keeper was George Farm and I seem to remember he was the Sottish national keeper.

[FeuerfaustAnent]

Great upload! This isn't just any match, it's an important piece of football history. Really nice to see on Youtube.

[reltonpelton]

tiki taki? my arse

[gsf67]

Keepers must have been really useless in those days. Mind you the ball was leather and when it was wet, it would have been like handling concrete.

[rossandfaker]

Matthews, Matthews, Matthews! Companion of my old dreams !

[roversrule87]

wow the keepers are really shit

[IrudienLantegia]

That´s not a film, that´s tv record. Wonderfull!

[TheLegendfamily]

@IrudienLantegia I'm almost certain that you're correct that this was from the tele-recorded version of the match.

[7VastyJ3ob]

i <3 Blackpool

[StevilTurner]

Should have been called the crap goalkeepers final

[creativex12]

Matthews.... what a great player !